The dropped storyline makes a lot of sense. I’m not so sure I see your “Will is probably gay” hypothesis, however.

I’ve mentioned this previously, but the whole Billy storyline strikes me as too subtle by half. I think the Duffers are trying to convey that Billy is a complete dick because, deep down, he is struggling with his sexual identity. The basketball scene, the subsequent shower scene, his angry overprotectiveness of his…

“mortal terror overwhelmed only by the knowledge that he’s their only hope—makes him more of a hero, not less.”

“Ally Sheedy’s character making over Molly Ringwald’s”

“Are The Bills Actually Good? They’re Getting There”

Kershaw was pretty great for 3.1 innings of game 5, then pretty horrible for 3 batters, then pretty good again for the remaining 0.2 inning. More importantly, Kershaw was generally great over 175 innings during the 2017 regular season and has been generally great over the almost 2,000 innings of his entire career.

You are exactly correct that false accusations of rape are very rare.But that is not what Glaser is alleging in his complaint against Pierce. Instead, he accuses her of spreading lies about him, the truthfulness of which she can not possibly know with any certainty. A case like this is exactly why libel laws exist.

Yeah, there were a number of moments that seemed to hint at something more to him, but nothing really came out of any of them, so his role (at least this season) is just “teen dick”.

There are three possible outcomes for the 49ers in this:

Why wasn’t no. 94 “Getting hit by a bus driven by a Christian”?

The NCAA almost had to do this to perpetuate the myth of the student-athlete upon which the entire multi-billion dollar enterprise is built. Its not the games the athletes play that matters so much as its the classes the students attend that matter. Horseshit.

I’m not sure why even false claims of death threats are sufficient to justify firing for cause. I’m sure there is a conduct clause in his contract that allows dismissal for besmirching the reputation of the program, but I don’t see how seeking sympathy via lies does anything but besmirch McElwain’s reputation. …

In Benjamin’s defense, once he had his eyes on the ball (and then turned backwards to recover his own drop), he couldn’t know that the Patriots’ coverage guys had outrun the Chargers’ blockers. So picking up the ball and starting to run (rather than just going out of bounds) is a somewhat defensible idea. From that…

“ESPN shit-for-brains Stephen A. Smith.”

To crib from io9's recap entries, a few assorted musings:

Which is the problem. As long as you continue to treat every insane utterance and blatant lie as if it were something an actual, responsible adult human would say, you normalize the Trump administration and assist it in its mission of destroying rational analysis of the world. ABC, CNN, the New York Times, NPR; I…

Smoltz brought this concept up last night during the game. Dave Roberts has received a lot of credit for his team’s success, in large part because of how good the Dodgers’ bullpen has become over the season: they had difficulty getting to Jansen early in the season, made some moves, moved guys around, and then become…

In order to actually utilize the anonymity promised by the Dark Web, don’t you have to use it only on a dedicated device? Like, here’s my Mac for emailing my grandmother and reading Lifehacker, but here’s my PC which I only use to discuss The Anarchist’s Cookbook on Jotunbane’s Reading Club and hire assassins.

Two years ago, my son’s girlfriend had an Italian girl living with her for their junior year of HS. I am one of those parents that talk to their kids’ friends and she was nice enough to put up with it and smart enough to be interesting. I joked with her that if the Republicans ended up being stupid enough to…

Only if the intention of all intercollegiate sports is, like professional sports, to make money. You are accepting the status quo that “unless the championship game is on one of the ESPN channels, its not a real sport” argument the pollutes all this. Who benefits from this perspective? Certainly the coaches and…